Women’s and Ethnic Studies (WEST) Minor

Course Requirements

Complete the following course:

• WEST 1010 Introduction to Social Justice Studies: Leadership, Inclusion, and Engagement  

Complete one course from each of the following three Substantive Areas, for a total of 9 hours. At least one Substantive Area course must be upper-division (3000+) level:

• Transnational/Global Studies

  • WEST 2070 Foundations in Native American Studies
        
  • WEST 3370 Boricua Crossings: Puerto Rico and its Diaspora
        
  • WEST 3480 Global Women’s Issues
      
  • WEST 3550 Native American Literature
          
  • WEST 4120 Indigenous Views on Sustainability: All My Relations
      
  • WEST 4130 ‘The Fog of War’: Memory, Trauma & the US Cultural Imagination    
  • WEST 4140 Unnatural Disasters: An Intersectional Approach to Catastrophe and its Aftermath   
  • WEST 4170 The Empire Strikes Back: Postcolonial Theory & Practice
       
  • WEST 4570 - South Sea Tales: Decoloniality & lndigeneity in Transpacific Literature   
  • WEST 4700 Global Feminisms
       
  • WEST 4838 Queering the State & Citizenship   

  Creative and Artistic Expression

  • WEST 2040 Global Black Women Writers  
  • WEST 2060 Reality Check: Gender, Race, and Class in Reality TV    
  • WEST 2500 Social Justice through Film
       
  • WEST 2750 REEL QT: Queer & Trans Media
       
  • WEST 3100 Women of Color: Image and Voice
       
  • WEST 3550 Native American Literature
        
  • WEST 3620 Media and Consumption: Monopolies, Myths, and Misrepresentations
       
  • WEST 4030 Bodies, Genders, Sexualities: A queering  
  • WEST 4570 South Sea Tales: Decoloniality & lndigeneity in Transpacific Literature   

  Social Movements, Communities, and History  

  • WEST 2070 Foundations in Native American Studies
      
  • WEST 2080 Foundations of Latinx Studies
       
  • WEST 2500 Social Justice through Film  
  • WEST 3060 Multi-Racial Identities
      
  • WEST 3080 Trans* Studies: Fluidity, Politics, and Identities  
  • WEST 3090 Peep Show: Sexuality in Popular Culture
      
  • WEST 3130 Gender, Race, and Sexuality
       
  • WEST 3370 Boricua Crossings: Puerto Rico and its Diaspora
      
  • WEST 3480 Global Women’s Issues
      
  • WEST 3620 Media and Consumption: Monopolies, Myths, and Misrepresentations
       
  • WEST 3760 - Social Justice and Sustainability: Living Mindfully     
  • WEST 4120 Indigenous Views on Sustainability: All My Relations
      
  • WEST 4130 ‘The Fog of War’: Memory, Trauma & the US Cultural Imagination
      
  • WEST 4140 Unnatural Disasters: An Intersectional Approach to Catastrophe and its Aftermath
        
  • WEST 4170 The Empire Strikes Back: Postcolonial Theory & Practice
      
  • WEST 4280 Native American Philosophical Thought
       
  • WEST 4480 Racial Storytelling: Montgomery Travel Course
        
  • WEST 4620 Race, Ethnicity, and Place  
  • WEST 4700 Global Feminisms
       
  • WEST 4838 Queering the State & Citizenship
      
   

Complete an additional 6 credit hours of upper-divsion WEST (3000+) elective courses. WEST 3400 Theory and Methods in WEST  is highly recommended.